Perform Assessments
After the network scope evaluation is completed, we perform vulnerability assessments, penetration testing and business risk analyses. These can be done mostly after hours and/or on weekends to minimize the disruption to your daily operations.
Those processes:
- Protect the organization’s ability to function.
- Enable the safe operation of software applications implemented on the organization’s network and computer systems.
- Protect the data that the organization collects and uses.
- Safeguard the technology of the organization.
How do you move forward and protect your business?
Implementing an information security program can protect the technology and information assets by preventing, detecting and responding to threats, both internal and external. To support the information security strategy, it’s important to improve staff awareness of information security issues through ongoing training and other initiatives.
Threats and system vulnerabilities must be evaluated and analyzed. This means establishing and implementing control measures and procedures to minimize risk; and regularly auditing those to measure the performance of controls and identify any emerging gaps.
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Organizations also need to enforce their information security policies and review them regularly in order to meet changing security requirements and – what is even becoming more and more important – new government information security compliance standards.
Develop The Plan
Once the assessments and testing have been completed, a detailed strategic plan will be developed that will prioritize the current risks to be mitigated for any technology and/or personnel training gaps that were identified.
The current state of information security readiness:
Despite all the warnings and high-profile breaches, the current state of readiness for most organizations when it comes to cybersecurity is gloomy. The need for better ‘cyber-hygiene’ from using stronger passwords, patching software, multi-factor authentication, employee training and awareness, and many other important security steps could not be more critical.
The economics of information security:Total costs associated with breaches have been consistently rising year after year. The new vulnerabilities that emerged from shifting to a remote workforce as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic greatly expanded the cyber-attack surface and added many vulnerabilities for hackers to exploit. Also, automated attacks by hackers and the ability to be paid with cryptocurrency via ransomware exploits has added to the annual costs of cybercrime.
Several research studies conducted in 2020 cite the hundreds of millions of attempted cyberattacks that occurred every day throughout 2020. Malware increased by an average of over 350% overall compared to 2019 and ransomware in particular increased by over 430%.
Ransomware and Phishing will remain as the primary information security risks in 2021. Attackers have ‘doubled-down’ on ransomware and phishing, while deep-fakes and disinformation will become more major threats in the future, according to a host of information security threat reports.
It has been conservatively estimated that cybercrime will cost the world over $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. Civilization will store over 200 zettabytes (that’s 200 trillion gigabytes) of data by the year 2025, according to respected industry and government sources. This includes data stored on: private and public on-premise networks, utility infrastructures, private and public cloud data centers, personal computing devices (PCs, laptops, tablets, and smartphones) and on IoT (Internet-of-Things) devices (automobiles, connected appliances, smart home security systems, personal digital assistants [Siri, Alexa, Cortana, etc.], wearable health monitors, cams [dash, security, web and body cams], wireless internet access points… and countless more). This just increases the attack surface and likely target pool for cybercriminals.
The longer any company, practice, firm, organization, institution or agency waits to address this issue in a substantive way, the more difficult and costly it becomes for them, AND the more likely it is they will become victims of cybercrime.
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Implement Strategies
Once the comprehensive plan has been evaluated and approved, we will begin working with your IT vendor and/or your staff. This is done in a deliberate and phased approach, saving time and reducing overall costs.
We’re not trying to replace your IT vendor.
Our mission is to take an objective, unbiased and in-depth look at your IT systems and infrastructure, and harden those existing investments.
We’re platform and equipment agnostic.
This means if your existing equipment is of good quality; has the capacity to run in a hardened, enterprise-style environment; and is still able to receive regular updates/patches produced by its manufacturer, then by all means we’ll make it part of the overall proposed InfoSec strategy.
We're very good at what we do.
Many companies who ‘dabble’ in the information security business are learning ‘information security’ while you’re paying them to protect your business. Would you want to be operated on by someone still in under-graduate school or by a highly experienced surgeon with several board certifications? We have the certifications and decades of experience as practitioners and educators within information security technologies. Our team is comprised of information security officers, directors, technicians, higher-education InfoSec instructors and federal contractors. We have the knowledge and real-world experience to take your business into a state of information security readiness and responsiveness.
Our services are tailored to your specific environment and needs. We won’t EVER recommend any services beyond what you exactly need to get into that state of information security readiness.
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